School of Engineering
School of Engineering

How to create “humble” AI

An MIT-led team is designing artificial intelligence systems for medical diagnosis that are more collaborative and forthcoming about uncertainty.

A better method for identifying overconfident large language models

This new metric for measuring uncertainty could flag hallucinations and help users know whether to trust an AI model.

Generative AI improves a wireless vision system that sees through obstructions

With this new technique, a robot could more accurately detect hidden objects or understand an indoor scene using reflected Wi-Fi signals.

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab seed to signal: Amplifying early-career faculty impact

Academia-industry relationship is an early-stage accelerator, supporting professional progress and research.

Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year?

Researchers at MIT, Mass General Brigham, and Harvard Medical School developed a deep-learning model to forecast a patient’s heart failure prognosis up to a year in advance.

New MIT class uses anthropology to improve chatbots

MIT computer science students design AI chatbots to help young users become more social, and socially confident.

A better method for planning complex visual tasks

A new hybrid system could help robots navigate in changing environments or increase the efficiency of multirobot assembly teams.

Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions

A new approach could help users know whether to trust a model’s predictions in safety-critical applications like health care and autonomous driving.

A “ChatGPT for spreadsheets” helps solve difficult engineering challenges faster

The approach could help engineers tackle extremely complex design problems, from power grid optimization to vehicle design.

New method could increase LLM training efficiency

By leveraging idle computing time, researchers can double the speed of model training while preserving accuracy.